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Explanation for Question 36 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

So looking at question number 36, 2 this is really a question of how we should place the word, 3 however, into the sentence. And so let's go ahead. 4 Let's split up the sentence, ignoring the word. 5 However, actually, and if we read these parts of the sentence, 6 the first part that I've highlighted in orange is going to be an independent 7 clause. It has a subject conceptualizing a game and 8 a verb is, and it's a complete thought. 9 Um, and then what we have here in purple is also a complete sentence 10 where it says, no matter how good the concept is it, 11 the subject will the verb. And then what we have is also the complete 12 thought. So if I have two independent clauses, 13 you should immediately realize that we need some type of punctuation right here in 14 the middle to separate them, maybe a period, 15 a semi-colon a common it conjunction. 16 And what we have right now is only commas around the word. 17 However, in fact, however, 18 here could be considered an a positive phrase, 19 right? And then if I remove it, which I can do with the positive 20 phrases, I'm just left with a run-on sentence. 21 So A's are run on sentence because it doesn't actually unify my independent clauses 22 in any way. Um, and B does the same, 23 uh, not be, actually see, does the same thing, right? 24 It separates however, with a dash and I in a comma, 25 which is similar to an, a positive phrase, 26 however, you should know that C is even more wrong than a, 27 because a positives need to...